29 March 2019

Sandbox - 29mar19

[Well, the Dems are looking to an approach to 'Medicare for All' designed by a couple of Univ of Mass economists that promises "You'd be able to keep your doctor with no premiums or copays, and overall spending would decline." Now where have we heard all that before? The many holes in this plan (here) also recommend its alternative use as a sieve. gjr]

Well, the EU is in on reparations, but those darn Spaniards won’t get with the program.

“Spain’s Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said it was “weird to receive now this request for an apology for events that occurred 500 years ago.”

“He wondered if Spain should seek an apology from France for the invasion of the Iberian Peninsula and crimes committed by the armies of Napoleon, or if France could demand an apology from Italy for the invasion of Gaul by Julius Caesar.

Hmmm. The Spanish right do not appear to be in the mood for asking forgiveness either.

BT at 4:04 - This stuff would be hilarious if not so stupidly sad. Golly - let's just rummage back through history for the last thousand years or so and tote up all the grievances and ills we can sling at one another.
I'd like to know when the Africans will start paying back whitey for all the free technology they have the use of. When will the world pay me for my family Slavic (slave) background?
Gimme, gimme, gimme.
Get a job.

“Specifically, this permit reinforces, as should have been clear all along, that the presidential permit is indeed an exercise of presidential authority that is not subject to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act,” the spokesman said in the AP report.

I hadn't visited Salon for over a week. The mentally ill still are out there and able to command a world wide audience. https://www.salon.com/2014/12/09/to_my_white_male_facebook_friends/
The authorette is described thus: "Cera Byer is a dancemaker and teacher based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her favorite Ninja Turtle is Donatello."
Get this: "You, my white male friend, occupy the highest social, economic and political position in our country. And, let's be real, that position was begotten unfairly."
She's not talking about the Kennedys or O'Rourke - she's talking about ALL white males in the US. All of them. They're all the same. All of them occupy the highest positions of power and fame in the US and they all don't deserve it. All of them.
I'll keep that in mind next time I'm in Downtown Boise in the areas where the winos hang out. Maybe hand out copies of this article to them and ask them how ashamed they must feel about their ill-gotten privilege.
Or maybe she actually does mean the 2 humans (we think) that identify as male that also identify as her freind on facebook. Yet this is published in Salon.
It gets better - here's another plea to 'face book friends'. Don't they have real, actual friends?https://www.salon.com/2015/04/29/dear_white_facebook_friends_i_need_you_to_respect_what_black_america_is_feeling_right_now/
This one is a knee slapper. Best quote:
"In college: People assume you got into Princeton because of affirmative action. They refuse to believe it could be because you are smart."
And yet you lefties wanted that. We conservatives tried to warn you, but nooooo.
We save the best for last - do you have any kiddies going off to college? They might not last the 4 years.
Read on -https://www.salon.com/2019/03/30/parents-reject-the-rigged-costly-elite-college-hustle-in-the-age-of-climate-doom/
CLIMATE DOOM!!!!!!
And I thought we had at least 12 more years.
I couldn't have made up a more absurd quote if I had tried.
"Should her last decade on pre-climate changed earth be spent paying off student loans?"
Wait - you mean it hasn't changed already???!!
Of course there's lot's of other fun stories about gun nuts and evil Republicans. It's better than MAD magazine. And it's free. I'll have to check in more often.

I like the concept, as the sea level rises and we are subject to the inevitable sharknados, there's nothing worth doing at Harvard beyond the rowing team. The next logical step for the US elite is to become survivalists. Rather than a university, the kids can learn how to make pemmican and shoot straight. This is a beautifully ironic idea.

Frankly, I've always wondered why people simply don't have their kids tutored rather than send them to a high-end school, access to expensive equipment aside. You could probably rent quite a few professor-hours at $50k/year. No doubt the piece of paper is still too valuable to ignore.

Its going to be a long spring for the juicy set, he lost Hollywood but hey he has JJ and his babies mommas -

Jussie Smollett might have been a no-show at Saturday night's NAACP Image Awards in Hollywood but that didn't stop comedian Chris Rock from blasting the "Empire" star.

"They said 'No Jussie Smollett jokes' ... What a waste of light skin. Do you know what I could do with that light skin? That curly hair? My career would be out of here! I'd be running Hollywood," said Rock, who was on hand to present the award for Outstanding Comedy Series.

He continued: "What the hell was he thinking? You're 'Jessie' from now on. You don't get the 'u' no more. That 'u' was respect. You ain't getting no respect from me!"

Scott: Victimhood is the highest status of being a Dem-Socialist. BTW, I am already getting tired of typing Dem-Socialists. It was easier pre-Trump when you could just type Dem or Lib. But, noooo. Everything gets longer and hyphenated. Gotta stay up with the times as the Dems merge with the Socialists. Dem-Socialist is redundant and synonymous.

Maybe I should write a post to the Dem-Socialists on FB to tell them how it feels to live among them. Maybe they just need to look in their hearts. Maybe they are unaware. Maybe they are blissfully naive how it feels to be dehumanized. Nah, why waste the breath.

re Ozz 957am - I had no idea that "GOP was outraged"; where can we find a description of that outrage? I'm not outraged, and don't know anyone else who is. Uncle Joe is a kindly old gentleman who likes to affectionately touch younger women, what a concept? Give the man some slack; his wife Jill does.

And what Donald Trump did in his pre-public private life doesn't outrage me either. As long as it was between consenting adults - let them sort it out if at a later date one of the adults decides it wasn't all that consenting. The litany of horny presidents having dalliances before, during, and after their terms is long, sometimes scurrilous, but also entertaining.

Whatever, whoever the Dem-Socialists decide upon is A-Ok with me. Biden does have a rather long and creepy history of his weird quirk to smell female’s hair and snuggle the back of their necks in public setting....females of all ages. Plus walking naked in front of his Secret Service detail is not appreciated by both the male and female agents. Into exhibitionism I reckon. Nobody is perfect. It was a Dem canidate who brought forth the accusations, so let the Dems fight it out. Did like what the Dem candidate for Nevada Lt. Governor said when Creepy Uncle Joe did his habitual thang to her in public, “Earth swallow me whole.”, lol.

“I thought to myself, “I didn’t wash my hair today and the vice-president of the United States is smelling it. And also, what in the actual fuck? Why is the vice-president of the United States smelling my hair?” He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head. My brain couldn’t process what was happening. I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused. There is a Spanish saying, “tragame tierra,” it means, “earth, swallow me whole.” I couldn’t move and I couldn’t say anything.” —AP

“But in another light, Biden’s behavior struck some as disturbing. At a Senate swearing-in ceremony in 2015, Biden whispered in the ear of a senator’s teenage daughter and kissed the side of her head, an interaction that a conservative writer described as a “lecherous elderly man creeping on underage girl” and said Biden would’ve caught more flak if he were a Republican.

Creepy Uncle Joe won’t announce until after April 1st. If he declared prior to that date, he would have to disclose his bigley donors. Now, he does not have to disclose for awhile. Don’t matter to me in the least who the Dem-Socialist Party picks. It’s their old white men.

Bottomline: this is the opening from now until the Dem nominee is chosen next year that they will savage each other. I believe her, I don’t recall. It’s open season on eating their own until they all rally around the flag after their convention.

"Uncle Joe is a kindly old gentleman who likes to affectionately touch younger women, what a concept? Give the man some slack; his wife Jill does"

There are many creepy old men who like to affectionately touch younger women who get slapped, sometimes on the cheek, sometimes into prison.

Biden should be remembered for his destruction of the historic deference to Presidents to get their choices of Supreme Court justices for his part in leading the Borking of Robert Bork, for no reason other than Bork was seen by some (probably correctly so) as being right on the overreach of Roe v. Wade and would convince the Supremes to change their minds.

Must not comment on Creepy Joe Biden....or his White apology tour. Must not go there. Must not have fun at Creepy Joe’s expense. That’s outrageous.

If anyone is outraged, it is the one who doth protest too much. Besides, Shotgun Joe, tat lecherous elderly man creeping on underage girl does not remember. I will extend him the benefit of the doubt, albeit Pocahontas and Cruel Amy are not so willing to sweep it under the carpet. It probably was all a dirty trick spread by My Gal, the invisible hand behind the Democrat Party.

“That’s why March 31 is increasingly recognized as National Border Control Day. (Arizona representative Paul Gosar introduced a resolution to that effect last week.)And with a Merkel-level migration disaster brewing on our southern border, its observance is all the more necessary.”

“Chavez channeled the vexation of his fellow border hawks over the years: “It’s frustrating to be a citizen of this country and see that your government, because of inaction of some bureaucrats, are not living up to the law.” Elsewhere in the speech Chavez foreshadows Donald Trump: “What the heck’s going on? It’s just, it’s a complete breakdown of the law. They’re not doing anything.”

“Where have you gone, Cesar Chavez? On this National Border Control Day, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you.”

Liz Peek is not a GOP activist anyway. She is a FOX contributor. So OOZE, tell us all about her and show us that you are correct. Oops, you can't, you are just a leftwing bloviator lemming mouthpiece of socialism.

Fox & Friends outdoes itself again. "Trump cuts U.S. aid to three Mexican countries." Typical Trump fodder, they eat it up. I bet Todd is still scratching the Brylcreem off of his head wondering why this is madness.

Gotta love the look on the Biker’s face in the diner. Priceless. Like, “Is he doing what I think he’s doing?” Yep.
Biden’s Anita Hill apology tour is causing a bigger backlash among the Addicted to Outrage female man-haters than anything else. #MeToo changed everything for those who are addicted to outrage. Outrage appears to be the Left’s drug of choice, right up there with power and victimhood.
There are some big time pissed off women wanting revenge for Creepy Joe’s treatment of Anita Hill. “Apology to her face! not us, Joe! Not good enough! To her face, asshole!” They have Daddy issues. :)

My, my. No matter how hard Dumb Joe tries to wash and scrub himself, he just can’t get that whiteness off his skin. May be a problem for the Leftinistas.

Shall we leave the glum angry lot behind on such a fine day? Life is too short to be in a perinnial state of chaos, tension, turmoil, and outrage. Screw that noise.

Ain’t Susan Boyle, but it ain’t bad either. Party time on the Sunny Side of the street.

And it's not flattering.
In the sketch, Smollett (played by Chris Redd) is two hours late to the meeting, as his manager (host Sandra Oh) makes excuses and Fox execs (Kate McKinnon, Mikey Day) and "Empire" co-creator Lee Daniels (Kenan Thompson) get more annoyed by the second.

"Jussie Smollett was a victim!" insists Oh.
"Oh, please," retorts McKinnon.
Then Redd walks in wearing a red MAGA hat.
"Guys, you are not going to believe what just happened to me," Redd says. "I got attacked again!" He promptly digs through a shopping bag that holds Crest White Strips, the letters KKK and a Teletubby. "The killer left me a bunch of clues!"

"What killer?" asks an exasperated McKinnon.
"You're still alive, Jussie," retorted another exec, played by Day.
"Only because I fought back, because I’m the gay Mike Tyson," insists Redd.
Oh, as his manager, eventually fires him.

The news ain't about Trump Paul, Please try and stay current. We know that hard for you.
Watching "hands" Joe, you would thing he got acting lessons... Working for an academy award. He gets all sappy, pretends he cares, just about cries real tears.(make one want to puke)

But it sure is fun watching the Chinese fire drill of wannabe Presidents.
Yet NONE has said what they can do better than Trump. Except raise taxes.

“I’m not sure what you’re saying the media got wrong. The media reported the investigation was going on. Other than the people in the media on the left, not on this network, I don’t know anybody that got anything wrong,” Tapper said during an exchange with acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney."

More on why the historic hold of the senate is changing everything for a long time -

Following Miller's confirmation month, in an analysis titled "Thanks to Trump, the liberal 9th Circuit is no longer liberal," The Washington Post noted that once all of Trump's current nominees to the bench are confirmed as expected, there will be 12 Republican-appointed judges on the 9th Circuit, which consists of 29 full-time judges.

I love my children,, and they love me.. THEY pay attention to the news. They just got me a few "high capacity" mags. for my EVIL black rifle. (good thing it's a bench shooter. It already needs wheels.)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing renewed calls to resign after a secretly recorded telephone call between two senior figures in his administration was made public, escalating claims he tried to shield an allegedly corrupt firm from prosecution.

The 17-minute call took place in December between Jody Wilson-Raybould, then the attorney general, and Michael Wernick, then Canada’s most senior civil servant, about the engineering company SNC-Lavalin, which was accused of paying bribes to Libyan officials.
Mr Wernick is heard in the audio telling Ms Wilson-Raybould that Mr Trudeau is interested in having the firm avoid criminal prosecution in favour of paying a fine, repeatedly saying that the prime minister is in a “pretty firm” frame of mind on the issue.
"I think he is going to find a way to get it done one way or another. He's in that kind of mood. I wanted you to be aware of that,” Mr Wernick is heard saying at one point.
Ms Wilson-Raybould in turn pushes back, raising concerns that the conversation could amount to “political interference” and an attempt to breach her “prosecutorial independence”. She declined to push for the prosecution to be dropped.

Ms Wilson-Raybould was eventually moved from the role in January, one month after the phone call, and given the more junior position of veterans affairs minister. She has since resigned and gone public with claims she was inappropriately leaned on.

The audio was released by Ms Wilson-Raybould along with more than 40 pages of documents backing up her allegations. She said that she chose to secretly record the conversation because she was concerned something “inappropriate” would be said.
She said she “took the extraordinary and otherwise inappropriate step of making an audio recording of the conversation” without telling Mr Wernick, adding that it was “something that I have never done before this phone call and have not done since”.

Mr Wernick stepped down from his role as Privy Council clerk earlier this month.

"Dems are looking to an approach to 'Medicare for All' designed by a couple of Univ of Mass economists that promises "You'd be able to keep your doctor with no premiums or copays, and overall spending would decline."

Poor ole Creepy Uncle Joe taking heat for not apologizing to one messed up liar, lol.

“Unlike the accusation against Kavanaugh, Hill’s allegations of sexual harassment were potentially a criminal matter. And in that regard, Hill wasn’t a credible accuser. Not a single person came forward to substantiate that Thomas, who had hundreds of subordinates under him over his years of working in government, had ever acted in the ways described by Hill towards anyone else. Twelve former female colleagues of Thomas and Hill signed an affidavit supporting him. Not one person who worked with both came forward to vouch for Hill.”

“The FBI investigated Hill’s claim against Thomas—though she was always reluctant to cooperate—and not only did it fail to find any evidence to back her claims, but after the hearings, agents sent additional affidavits to the Senate accusing Hill of misleading the public by skipping portions of her story and offering public testimony that contradicted what she had told law enforcement officials.“

And to think that Anita Hill has a display honoring her in the Black History exhibit at the Smithsonian while Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was excluded. The Left sure has a problem with the truth, facts, revisionist history, stupidity, getting it wrong (way wrong), fakenews, and more stupidity. Mountains of dumbness. Oh my, makes me almost feel sorry for Creepy Uncle Joe. Almost.

Come on Emery,, gotta ask twice?
Look at the service I got at the VA! Just a two hour drive,
and as butthurt as you have been you could use a good reaming or two. And no charge since you claim to be a VET.

“I’m not sure what you’re saying the media got wrong. The media reported the investigation was going on. Other than the people in the media on the left, not on this network, I don’t know anybody that got anything wrong,” Tapper said during an exchange with acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney."

“CNN was also forced to correct a June 7, 2017, article (co-authored by Tapper) that claimed James Comey would dispute President Donald Trump’s claims that Comey had told him he was not under investigation. Comey undercut the report during his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.”

“Co-authored” by Tapper. Sweet. When did I say Trump is a traitor? When? Prove it! Yes or no, Prove it now! If you cannot prove it right here and now, then you Circle of Jerks are all liars. Liars! Roflmao.
It would be much easier and less time consuming to make a list of what the unhinged dumb popinjays got right in the last 2 1/2 years.

Yep, we don’t have to lift a finger. Best to sit back and watch and keep our hands to ourselves. The Dems are in self-destruct cannibalize mood. It has to be a woman, it has to be a person or color, it can’t be too old, too white, too dour. At this rate, Judge Jeannie will be on the Supreme Court.

PaulE 317pm - Not yet. But not to worry. Obamacare is not going to be banished for some time yet - remember, it is expensive and millions are still not covered. There is plenty of time to adopt an alternative, especially given that Repub alternatives are already on the shelf from which a better approach based on market principles can be constructed. You will also recall that there exists no sustainable nationalized healthcare system that is not cutting services and desperately trying to figure out how to cut costs. 'Patience grasshopper' ;-)

How about the 20 women that have accused Trump of sexual advances. Compare that with the one who accused Biden of kissing her on the head. How do you compare the two?"

We weren't talkin' about Trump, that's old news.

lol. It's funny to watch the 'splainin about how Biden "just isn't that bad" start up. It'll be like watching Team Blue talk about Bill Clinton's 'romantic' adventures. Nope, no creepiness to see here.

A puzzle. One of the great unanswered mysteries in life that we just have to live with. Serenity is the ability to live with problems that have no solutions. :)
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First Obama called us bitter clingers. Next Hillary called us half Deplorables and the other half Irredeemables. Then Biden called us Dregs of Society. Not to be undone, Mad Max just called us Sycophants. Cool. Moving up in the world.

This is the part that's going to start being seen more clearly as the layers of the onion are being pealed back as we speak. They were so sure of winning they didn't have time to really cover it up once they weaponized -

The beginning of the end of a quasi-dictator? If so good riddance to the isis helping POS -

Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan suffered a severe setback on Sunday as his ruling AK Party was set to lose control of the capital Ankara for the first time in a local election and he appeared to concede defeat in the country's largest city, Istanbul.

Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics since coming to power 16 years ago and ruled his country with an ever tighter grip, campaigned relentlessly for two months ahead of Sunday's vote, which he described as a "matter of survival" for Turkey.

Ocasio-Cortez's criticism of the DCCC is in response to Rep. Cheri Bustos (D., Ill.), the new chairwoman of the DCCC, announcing a new policy earlier this month that attempts to protect incumbent Democrats from primary challengers. The new policy bans Democratic consultants from working with primary challengers if they want to continue doing business with DCCC.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-N.Y., might want to brush up on some history after asserting, incorrectly, that Republicans in Congress amended the Constitution to kick President Franklin Delano Roosevelt out of office.
"They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected," Ocasio-Cortez said Friday during a night hall event with MSNBC with Chris Hayes.

Ocasio-Cortez was referring to the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution which passed in 1947.
The text of the amendment states, “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.” FDR died in 1945, meaning he was dead for a full two years before presidential term limits were implemented.

“DNC finance chair Henry Munoz said he doesn’t believe Flores because he doesn’t think she was ever alone with Biden at the event. Latino Victory Fund, a progressive group Munoz co-founded, organized the event where Flores said Biden kissed her.”

—I heard the pencil neck geek say after the Mueller report came out that Trump Campaign went to the Tower to get dirt on Hillary and accepted information from the Russians that benefited Trump.

No, they did nott accept any information because Don Jr and Kushner walked out. Besides, the Russsians did not bring dirt on Hillary. No ‘benefit.’ In addition, the Mueller summary said the Trump Campaign was appproached by Russians and did not take the bait. Not offfered, not accepted, never happened.

—Heard some talking head or The Pencil Neck Geek say a few days ago (after the Mueller report) proclaim Flynn illegally contacted the Russian Ambassador during the transition.

No, Trump TOLD. Flynn to contact the Russian Ambassador, a legal and expected thing to do.
And the beat goes on and on and on.... Trruth is a causality to keep the Lety narrative going.

Oh my BillT, how could you print the truth? What the heck? Democrats are simply lying sacks of horse excrement and not a one of them can ever be trusted. Paul Emery and the FUE and Frisch, all the same.

More on the scum sucking scab picking Pencil Neck Geek. Me thinks he sees himself as the star prosecutor and savior of the nation. No self awareness. Typical of pencil neck geeks and popinjays.

“Like the hypothetical lawyer giving the closing argument above, Schiff would like us to believe that the star witness (Mueller) he once told us would validate his circumstantial evidence is no longer essential to the proceedings. In fact, his testimony should be dismissed, and Schiff’s opinion should be substituted for the legal conclusions of the expert.

“Given the lather he worked himself into at Thursday’s committee meeting, it’s a good bet that Schiff will continue his quixotic quest to pin something on the president, evidentiary standards be damned, until he settles on something that will meet his own standard of very close to guilty enough.”

How come no one has ever asked Schiff to present the "clear evidence" that he claims to have of all these obviously false allegations???? Wouldn't asking him to present such evidence cause him to put up or shut his pie hole??? This question has been hanging for at least a year.

"You will also recall that there exists no sustainable nationalized healthcare system that is not cutting services and desperately trying to figure out how to cut costs."

what is your documentation for that statement George. Stating that there are "no sustainable nationalized healthcare system..... " is a mighty statement that must have been gathered from a reasonably credible source to have your support and trust that it's true.

The Repubs are yelling lock her (or them) up again before any indictments, arrest or trial or even investigation.. What is the "clear evidence" that she (Hillary) or "them " is guilty of something that would require incarnation?

"President Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the F.B.I. about conversations with the Russian ambassador last December, becoming the first senior White House official to cut a cooperation deal in the special counsel’s wide-ranging inquiry into election interference."

A perfect example of how the media and their popinjays lie and spread fakenews. Add a word, drop a word, make an agrument from statement not said. Create a straw man and knock ‘er down. How those so easily misled, grossly misinformed, and astonishing repeatedly wrong can show their faces in public again is beyond me. Must be a deep seated narcissism couple with unwarranted arrogance.

They are truly conclusions looking for arguments, poor things. I suppose they deserve pity.

I think it means "Just like they do in Denmark, even though I have no clue what they do in Denmark". Its about as fact-filled as the old news of wildly swinging at the Russia investigation when there was no there there. It's like having a jack in the box that can activate itself.

America had the greatest and the best healthcare system before the democrats wrecked it in 2009. Free markets. And all the world came here for their care and medications. Now we are struggling to return as the bite of socialism is infecting many.

PaulE 904pm & 830am – Paul, is this not getting a bit embarrassing for you? We have circled this barn so many times in past years with data on nationalized healthcare sustainability which I have posted numerous times (recall the detailed info on Denmark?). And you remember nothing, or are you just being cynical and jacking around other RR readers? Here’s something that may help.https://www.neuro-news.online/b/brain-health/RevivaBrain/d/ben-carson/

Flynn plead guilty to one count of lying to the FBI. It was about whether he asked the Russian Ambassador to not reciprocate in kind against the new sanctions and Trump’s hope that the Russians would not vote (or delay voting) on a UN Resolution condemning Israel. He also had been an unregistered agent doing work for the Islamic State of Turkey before Nov, 2016 when he joined the Trump transition team as Nat”l Security Advisor. He was not charged for that, neither for errors on the the form registering for working for a foreign government....the other lie.

Mueller recommended no jail time. Zero.

The FBI had the full transcripts of Flynn’s call to the Ambassador before they even approached him. There was nothing in the phone call that was illegal or raised eyebrows. Totally legal and run of the bill for a senior official of a transition team.

Why Flynn lied is something we don’t know. He is and has been under a gag order, so he cannot explain or publicly defend himself. We know he was urged not to go through the White House legal office or have White House lawyer present. The FBI stated Flynn was relaxed, jovial. My guess is he did not know it was an FBI interview and Flynn did not know the protocol of all West Wing interviews with the FBI are run through the White House legal office first. McCabe called him, “ Hey Mike, it’s me Andy.” They
talked about a little league baseball team, a non-profit , ....and BTW, .I am sending a couple agents over to drop by your office. Just got a couple of questions.” to paraphrase.

My 8:03 pm was to dispute The Pencil Neck Geek statements AFTER the Mueller Report. He said Flynn illegally contacted the Russian Ambassador. No, Trump told Flynn to contact the Russian Ambassador. Total legit for a National Security Advisor of any transition team to contact ambassadors of heads of states. Not illegal in the least and he did so at the President-elect’s direction.......unless.....unless......drumroll please....unless you a such a bigley stupid idiot you would swallow that Logan Act ridiculous nonsense hook, line, and sinker, roflmao. Nobody is that stupid. Opps, the popinjays are!

As an interesting side note, at Flynn sentencing hearing on Dec. 18, we learned from docs that when Flynn was interviewed about whether about he asked Russia not to vote on the UN Resolution condemning Israel, Flynn answered, “not really.” We also learned that he was testifying in a Grand Jury in Virginia against his former business partners when they did work of the Government of Turkey. It wasn’t about Russian Collusion and Flynn had the goods on Trump!!! The noose is tightening and Flynn is a Liar!

Flynn plead guilty to protect his son who also was involved in working for the government of Turkey. Turkey wanted the US to extradite the cleric Fethullah Gulen for his role in the coup attempt...along with 84 of his followers. Never happen. It would be the death sentence for Gulen. Flynn fell on the sword when the FBI dangled his son before him. The Judge asked Flynn four times if he was sure he wanted to plead guilty. Are you sure. Judge Sullivan also said he never convicted an innocent man beforeand did not intend to start today. Hmmmm.

The most interesting thing we learned at Flynn’s December sentencing (since postponed) is that Judge Sullivan, confused on dates, asked the prosecutor about The Logan Act and the whole courtroom of government lawyers and press broke out in snickers, ROFLMAO. The Judge looked at the prosecutor and said, “You do realized the Logan Act has never been prosecuted” as a throw away comment before telling the courtroom to have a Happy Holiday.

The Logan Act. Good one. Makes me snicker at the fools who would spout such a silly folly.

I checked out your links and graphics and they actually enhance my point of view. Exhibit 1 Health care spending as a percentage of the GDP reveal that between 1980 and 2014 the European countries that have established National Health Care systems rose an average of only around 2 or 3 % during those 24 years. However this country , that had no national health care system during most of those years more than doubled. The greatest growth was during the Bush Jr years-over 6%. the graph shows that %of GDP stabilized between 2009 and 2014 during the time Obamacare was introduced.

How do you explain those numbers and how do they support your view that those countries have out of control health costs?

PaulE 1148am - You've now missed the entire point (the beat goes on). Recheck the definition of 'unsustainable', and then consider 1) the constituents of our reported healthcare costs, and those of other nationalized healthcare countries - i.e. apples/oranges. BTW, I did NOT "coin the term" here on RR. Google 'nationalized healthcare' and learn, and also please expand your reading horizons - Rachel Maddow is not the penultimate source for news and information.

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Oh Don. Those far lefty socialists are gunning for Biden. It ain’t coming from the Right. Somebody is digging up dirt on Biden and doing the ole opposition research. My guess is Biden will get through this just like the Governor of North Carolina with his black face. Afterall, Biden is a Democrat. Interesting to see who is rallying around Creepy Joe, and which politicians and media outlets are not. My guess is they are going to give Biden a pass. Professsional courtesy.

#MeToo in 2020?

NBC has had their Matt Lauer scandal. CBS has their Les Moonves, Bernie had his mean male staffer scandal. Now they are saying one time is ok. Everytime someone brings up Flores’s statement about being so creeped out by Uncle Joe she wanted the earth to swallow her whole and get away from the old Chester the Molester kissing on her head, they pivot to Ashley pink tie Carter wife’s exoneration letter. Politics trumps gender....when it comes to the top.

PaulE 1238pm - These pages have discussed healthcare in detail over the years. Your questions take us back to square one, a place that I am not willing to go. I wish you the joy of your convictions and understanding about the matter.

That's because you never went there to begin with. You have no information to back uyp your contention which is verified by your unwillingness to discuss such basic factors as to why the % of the GDP in our country rose at a dramatically higher rate than those of Euro States with National health care. Still waiting for your explanation as to why the provided chart has information that would somehow support your conclusions about the massive growth of Euro health care compared to ours. In fact it shows quite the opposite.